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: Sep 10, 2026 12:22pm UTC

Once again, we've had to wait a little bit longer, but Metroid Ravenous preorders are now available for Nintendo Switch 2 for those of us in the UK.

The first moment you look inside a newly discovered ancient tomb is at once exciting and terrifying. I was fortunate to experience this recently as director of an international research team carrying out fieldwork in the Theban necropolis, a Unesco world heritage site near the modern Egyptian city of Luxor.

Jacqui Lambie has escalated her attack on Pauline Hanson, describing her as an “angry little woman” and a “bloody coward” after Hanson refused to apologise for or take down a One Nation cartoon labelling Liberal frontbencher and SAS veteran Andrew Hastie a “traitor”.

Banijay‘s Pokeepsie Films and Amazon Prime Video continue to build out the “House of Ron,” the audiovisual empire of bestselling Argentine-born Spanish YA romance author Mercedes Ron.

The film adaptations of her popular enemies-to-lovers Culpables romance trilogy (Culpa Mía, Culpa Tuya, Culpa Nuestra) became not only the most-watched Spanish, but also the most-watched international original, for the streamer ever, with a combined 100 million views worldwide as of the summer.

Taylor Swift, the award-winning billionaire singer and songwriter, is getting a new honor: The megastar is the namesake of several recently discovered species of plant-feeding insects from Australia.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have named the new species of insect after Swift. A paper describing the 12 new species was published in the journal “Insect Systematics and Evolution.” Of these, one genus has been named Swiftiephylus, which combines “Swiftie,” the term for Swift’s fans, with “Phylus,” a name commonly used for this group of insects.

Laika’s “Wildwood” is set to open the 40th edition of AFI Fest, presented by Canva, on Oct. 21.

It also marks the U.S premiere of the film. “Wildwood” is the latest animated feature from the Portland-based studio Laika, and it’s directed and produced by Travis Knight.

Apple is giving a new twist to its flagship smartphone line: The company unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone model.

The company’s iPhone Duo foldable has an internal screen panel (plus one on the outside of the device) that provides the largest, most immersive screen size ever at 7.6 inches diagonally — and it’s also the thinnest iPhone ever, according to Apple. (When unfolded, it looks like an iPad tablet.) The company also announced the single-screen iPhone 18 baseline model and Pro 18 and Pro Max 18 versions, as well as AirPods 5 and other new products.

Dolly Parton‘s sister Stella told “CBS Mornings” in a new interview that the country music icon hid her cancer battle not only from fans but also from “a lot of family” because she did not want her legacy tainted with sadness. Parton died in Nashville on Aug. 25 at 80 years old. The singer’s representative later confirmed her death followed a “brief battle” with cancer. The news came as a shock to both Parton’s friends and family.

Prominent Israelis have welcomed new UK sanctions as a necessary response to settlement expansion and spiralling violence in the occupied West Bank.

The intervention was described – by the president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a former prime minister, an ex-head of the army and former ministers and diplomats – as an “inevitable consequence” of Israeli government and security failures.